Museums Victoria: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Museum operator in Victoria, Australia}}

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'''Museums Victoria''' is an organisation which operates three major state-owned [[museum]]s in [[Melbourne, Victoria]]: the [[Melbourne Museum]], the [[Immigration Museum]] and [[Scienceworks Museum (Melbourne)|Scienceworks Museum]]. It also manages the [[Royal Exhibition Building]] and a storage facility in Melbourne's [[City of Merri-bek]].

 

 

== History ==

|File:On the marsupial pouches, mammary glands and mammary foetus of the Echidna hystrix (Plate XXXIX) BHL48262790.jpg|Illustrated plate from ''On the marsupial pouches, mammary glands and mammary foetus of the Echidna hystrix'' by [[Richard Owen]]

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==Notes==

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==References==

* Wilkinson, I. (1996), "The Battle for the Museum: Frederick McCoy and the Establishment of the National Museum of Victoria at the University of Melbourne", ''Historical Records of Australian Science'', Vol.1, No.1, (January 1996), pp. 1–11. {{doi|10.1071/HR9961110001}}

 

==External links==

*[http://museumsvictoria.com.au/ Museums Victoria website]

*[https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museum-victoria?hl=en Virtual tour of the Museums Victoria] provided by [[Google Arts & Culture]]

*[https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/collections Museums Victoria Online Collections]

 

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[[Category:Archaeological museums in Australia]]

[[Category:Ethnographic museums in Australasia]]

[[Category:Museum organizations]]

[[Category:Physical museums with virtual catalogues and exhibits]]